12 Boozy Lemonade Recipes for a Sip of Sunshine

Is a vodka lemonade your usual go to? You love things a little sour, a little sweet, and also boozy. But, consider this - there's a world of boozy lemonade drinks that'll knock a pucker right onto your face or perhaps a soul-quenching "ahhh" with just the right amount of fruity sweetness. You can do whatever your boozy lemonade heart desires.

Layer in the citrus on citrus on citrus for a tart boozy lemonade to rival even the most nostalgic memory of sour candy. Does that idea give you heartburn? Cut back the amount of citrus and add more simple syrup, or use limeade instead of lime juice.

Ingredients

• 2 ounces vodka
• 2 ounces lemonade
• ¾ ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
• ¾ ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
• ½ ounce simple syrup
• Ice
• Mint sprig and lime wheel for garnish

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, vodka, lemonade, lime juice, grapefruit juice, and simple syrup.
2. Shake to chill.
3. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
4. Garnish with a mint sprig.

Coconut rum turns the summery pink lemonade from something light to something with a little bite.

Ingredients

• 1½ ounces coconut rum
• 4 ounces lemonade
• ¾ ounce cranberry juice
• Ice
• Lemon wheel for garnish

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, coconut rum, lemonade, and cranberry juice.
2. Shake to chill.
3. Strain into a highball glass over fresh ice.
4. Garnish with a lemon wheel.

Are you having a berry good day? Do you want to make your day a berry good day? Do you want to live the delicious life of berry puns? If you said maybe to even one, make this cocktail, and do it berry soon.

Ingredients

• 1½ ounces strawberry vodka
• ¾ ounce raspberry liqueur
• 4 ounces lemonade
• ½ ounce grenadine
• Ice
• Mint sprig for garnish

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, strawberry vodka, raspberry liqueur, lemonade, and grenadine.
2. Shake to chill.
3. Strain into a highball glass over fresh ice.
4. Garnish with a mint sprig.

A classic Jack Daniels cocktail, it's a boozy bourbon lemonade that's more lemon-lime soda than lemonade. Feel free to swap the lemon juice and simple syrup for that classic lemonade flavor. Find out how to shake it up here.

Lemon vodka amps up the lemon flavors with a boozy backyard sipper that'll taste just as good whether you're the one mowing the lawn or letting the lawn mower know they missed a spot.

Ingredients

• 2 ounces lemon vodka
• 3 ounces lemonade
• ½ ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
• Ice
• Lemon club soda to top off
• Lemon wheel for garnish

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, lemon vodka, lemonade, and lime juice.
2. Shake to chill.
3. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
4. Top off with lemon club soda.
5. Garnish with a lemon wheel.

Break out the blender! It's time for slushy, frozen, boozy lemonade today. No blender? No problem. You can partially defrost a can of frozen lemonade and carefully stir that together with the ingredients.

Ingredients

• 2 ounces tequila
• 2 ounces freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 4 ounces lemonade
• ¾ ounce simple syrup
• 2 cups ice
• Mint sprig for garnish

Instructions

1. In a blender, add ice, tequila, lemonade, lemon juice, and simple syrup.
2. Blend until smooth or desired frozen consistency.
3. Pour into a rocks glass.
4. Garnish with a mint sprig.

Pick your poison, add some cherry juice and lemonade, and you're on your way. Whipping this up for friends? Easily multiply by how much you'll need and stir this recipe up in a pitcher.

Ingredients

• 2 ounces vodka, tequila, OR white rum
• 4 ounces lemonade
• 2 ounces cherry juice
• ½ ounce orange liqueur
• Ice
• Cherry for garnish

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, spirit of choice, lemonade, cherry juice, and orange liqueur.
2. Shake to chill.
3. Strain into a highball glass over fresh ice.
4. Garnish with a cherry.

You can smash your way to this blackberry lemonade, like a blackberry bourbon smash, or you can take a rest day and use blackberry liqueur instead.

Ingredients

• 1½ ounces bourbon
• ¾ ounce blackberry liqueur OR blackberry brandy
• 4 ounces lemonade
• 3-4 fresh blackberries
• Ice
• Lemon wheel and blackberry for garnish

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, bourbon, blackberry liqueur, lemonade, and blackberries.
2. Shake to chill and muddle the blackberries.
3. Strain into a cocktail glass over fresh ice.
4. Garnish with a lemon wheel and a blackberry.

Lavender-infused vodka is for more than just floral martinis. It's for a floral and dreamy boozy lemonade, too. No time to infuse? Add a half ounce of lavender syrup.

Ingredients

• 1½ ounces lavender-infused vodka
• 4 ounces lemonade
• ½ ounce elderflower liqueur
• Ice
• Lavender sprig and lemon wheel for garnish

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, lavender vodka, lemonade, and elderflower liqueur.
2. Shake to chill.
3. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
4. Garnish with a lavender sprig and lemon wheel.

Electric lemonade isn't just for the under-21 crowd. A blue drink that'll bring blue skies to even the cloudiest of days, let's get sippin'.

Ingredients

• 1½ ounces blue raspberry vodka
• 4 ounces lemonade
• ¾ ounce blue curaçao
• Ice
• Lemon slice for garnish

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, blue raspberry vodka, lemonade, and blue curaçao.
2. Shake to chill.
3. Strain into a cocktail glass over fresh ice.
4. Garnish with a lemon slice.

Count 'em: one ingredient, two ingredients, three ingredients, done! For when you want to sprint into the sun or don't want to spend all night building a single drink.

Ingredients

• 2 ounces silver rum OR tequila
• 3 ounces watermelon juice
• Ice
• Lemonade to top off
• Mint sprig for garnish

Instructions

1. In a rocks or highball glass, add rum and watermelon juice.
2. Top off with lemonade.
3. Stir to mix.
4. Garnish with a mint sprig.

A lemon drop martini becomes a lemonade drop highball. It still has that perfect balance, but isn't as potent.

Ingredients

• Lemon wedge and sugar for rim
• 2 ounces citron vodka
• 4 ounces lemonade
• 1 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
• ¾ ounce orange liqueur
• Ice
• Club soda to top off
• Lemon wheel for garnish

Instructions

1. To prepare rim, rub the rim of the glass with the lemon wedge.
2. With the sugar on a saucer, dip either half or the entire rim of the glass in the sugar to coat.
3. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, vodka, lemonade, lemon juice, and orange liqueur.
4. Shake to chill.
5. Strain into the prepared glass.
6. Top off with club soda.
7. Garnish with a lemon wheel.

There are no rules saying you can't add booze to the little lemonade gifts that life throws at you. So why not take the high road, the fun road, the this problem can wait road? Shake, sip, and enjoy boozy lemonade cocktails all week long.